Fbi Testing Blood In Truck For Clues To Missing Mom

Bloodstains found in a truck reportedly dumped in Nashville by murder suspect William C. Smith have sent federal authorities scrambling to see whether they match the blood of a missing exotic dancer.

Sources told the Sun-Sentinel on Friday the FBI is testing the samples found in the stolen Mercury Mountaineer to see whether they match the blood type of stripper Georgette Theragood of New Mexico.

The FBI and Nashville Police discovered the missing 1998 Mercury Mountaineer late Thursday as it was about to be towed from a parking garage at the downtown Crowne Plaza Hotel, said FBI Supervisory Special Agent Doug Beldon in Albuquerque.

A search warrant was issued late Friday.

Sources said bloodstains were found inside the vehicle, which was stolen from Smith's wife in late January in Albuquerque. Smith was free on bond on a first-degree murder charge in the 1989 shooting of a fellow pimp, Robert ``Busy Bee'' Harris III, when he fled with Theragood and her 1-year-old daughter.

Theragood, 22, hasn't been seen since Jan. 25 and last spoke to relatives by phone from Amarillo, Texas, on Jan. 28, the FBI has said. Authorities are now scrambling to find Theragood's hospital records.

One possibility: New Mexico sources said Smith may have forced Theragood to submit to an AIDS test and drug screening at Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque shortly before they fled on Super Bowl Sunday.

The FBI was reportedly given those records by Dina Andrews-Smith, Smith's estranged wife, who found them in their Albuquerque apartment after Smith was detained on Feb. 6 in Fort Lauderdale.

Smith is being held as a material witness to an attempted hijacking at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

A carry-on bag abandoned at the airport held a .38-caliber gun and eight pages of revolutionary notes about a hijacking, martyrdom and orchestrated bank robberies and money laundering. Hours later, Smith tried to claim the bag at a sheriff's substation at the airport, saying friends from a nonexistent Muslim mosque in Brooklyn, N.Y., asked him to pick up church documents.

The stolen four-wheel drive provides the latest piece of evidence of the cross-country trek Smith, Theragood and the baby made on Super Bowl Sunday.

Apparently, Smith dropped off more than diapers at baby sitter Marcy Ford's home near Memphis on Jan. 30, authorities said. Child Protective Service workers in Tennessee discovered several .38-caliber bullets in the bottom of the baby bag.

Smith, who has an extensive criminal record, has used 30 aliases, 10 birthdays and 10 Social Security numbers. His life of crime started at 14, when he shot and killed a friend in California.